Joe Everett is a genealogy librarian at FamilySearch, responsible for patron services in international branches of the Family History Library. Joe was previously the head of International Reference at the Family History Library and a technical services librarian, cataloging Slavic and Germanic records. He also spent several years as content manager at Ancestry.com. Joe earned a B.A. in Russian Language and Family History/Genealogy (Germanic emphasis) from Brigham Young University and a Master of Library Science from Emporia State University (Kansas). He has been active in library and genealogical associations and has lectured and published articles Central & East European research.

19 May 2008

This is a wonderful story. Superstar atheletes usually fail to measure up to their status as role models, which like it or not they are. (Whether they should be is definitely debatable, but the fact is, for better or worse, they are role models.) Here is one athelete who has done something that truly deserves praise, but he will give all the credit to his mother.